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Rh the Innocency and Simplicity of Youth. For Examples of Vices, or Weakneles, have the ame Effect upon Children, with Examples of Vertue; Nay it holds in Publique too as well as in Private, that the Words and Actions of our Superiors have the Authority and Force of a Recommendation. Regis ad Exemption, is o True, that ‘tis Morally Impoible to have a Sober People under a Mad Government. For where Lewdne is the Way to Preferment, Men are Wicked by Interet, as well by Imitation: But to Return to the Stres of the Fable, Let a Gooe Walk like a Gooe, and leave Nature to do her Own Bus'nes her Own Way,



Here happen’d a Controvery betwixt the Sun and the Wind, which was the Stronger of the Two; and they put the Point upon This Iue: There was a Traveller upon the Way, and which of the Two could make That Fellow Quit his Cloak hould carry the Caue. The Wind feil preently a Storming, and threw Hail-Shot over and above in the very Teeth of him. The Man Wraps himelf up, and keeps Advancing till in pight of the Weather: But This Gut in a hort Time Blew over; and then the Sun Brake out, and fell to Work upon him with his Beams; but till he Puhes forward, Sweating, and Panting, till in the End he was forc’d to Quit his Cloak, and lay himelf down upon the Ground in a Cool Shade for his Relief: So that the Sun, in the Concluion, carry’d the Point.